Designing features for both genders in end-user programming environments

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 153-160

  Beckwith, Laura ^a   Sorte, Shraddha ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Wiedenbeck, Susan ^b   Chintakovid, Thippaya ^b   Cook, Curtis ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END-USER PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE FEATURES;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745815075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2005.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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